WNC News Roundup

Living in Asheville, it’s easy to get caught up in all things Asheville. But there’s more to Western North Carolina than drum circles and downtown development, and the Mountain Xpress aims to help broaden your view with a weekly roundup of news from our region.

The goal here is to mine newspaper Web sites, and the occasional newspaper blog, for what’s interesting. We’ll be looking for big breaking stories and small-town goings-on. We’ll search for trends, scoops and the quirky items too. Have you spotted something interesting in your local? Let us know in the comment field below.

• The state of gay marriage: Porscha Young, of Asheville’s gay and lesbian newspaper Out in Asheville, editorializes on gay marriage in the wake of California’s Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage: “California’s recent decision must have sparked a fire under Representative Forrester’s (R-Gaston) proverbial ass, because the first day of legislative summer session, he introduced (for the fifth time) an anti-marriage state constitutional amendment.”

• The Village Witch, Byron Ballard, blogs for the Citizen-Times and writes eloquently that the summer solstice is upon us: “Though everything seems so bright and fair, we have begun the inevitable spiral in, leading us to another day, on the opposite curve of the Wheel, when we stand in the longest night and long for day.”

– The Weaverville Tribune’s blog, Dropped from the Headlines, notes that the developers of the Reynolds Mountain Community are preparing to build Reynolds Village, a development that will forever change Woodfin. One design element — a traffic circle. “Woodfin as we know it won’t be the same place in another five years. Is everybody on board?” it asks.
— Jason Sandford, multimedia editor

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9 thoughts on “WNC News Roundup”

“Living in Asheville, it’s easy to get caught up in all things Asheville. But there’s more to Western North Carolina than drum circles and downtown development …”

Wonderful, Jason! Excellent turn of phrase highlighting a basic truth. I commend the MountainX — there IS more to WNC than Asheville, a whole lot more! In fact, Asheville is only a small part of Buncombe County, giving us more coverage out here in the county would be great.